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The softly smiling man repeats the simple greeting again and again. ''Hello,'' he says. ''Hello. Hello.'' There is hope and gentleness in the way he throws out the words, like a bird-lover tossing bread crumbs to pigeons. But it is a little girl this...

March 19, 2004, Friday

FEW events are as traumatic as those Bryony Lavery describes in her play ''Frozen'': a 10-year-old English girl disappears on the way to visit her grandmother and it is not until several decades later that her remains are discovered -- under the...

March 14, 2004, Sunday

What's Next? Skyboxes? Seeing a show on Broadway can be exciting, glamorous or, frankly, boring, but it is rarely comfortable. Long lines, cramped seats and crowded restrooms are not what most people would expect with a $100 purchase, but that's...

The Life Cycle Of Blockbusters The Broadway box office has awakened from its summer slumber, yawned and gone back to sleep. Ticket sales bounced back this week from the usual post-Labor Day dip, but many reliable moneymakers, faced with new...

AND now, direct from the underworld, two august ladies of letters as you've never seen them before. Hear Mary McCarthy sing! Watch Lillian Hellman make like Baby Snooks! Gaze on as the writer of ''The Little Foxes'' and the author of ''The Group'' go...

December 13, 2002, Friday

Turned Down By a Dirty Town There were two questions ricocheting round the Main Stem this week, and both involved ''Sweet Smell of Success,'' the beleaguered box-office bust that bowed at the Martin Beck last Thursday evening.

''Bubble Boy'' is the oddest Disney picture ever, and certainly one of the freakier films of the year. Like several other new releases, it's about tolerance. By no means does it work consistently, and some of the jokes are bound to offend, but its...

Warning: Chris Carter wants to hijack your brain. Again. And after shuddering through tonight's premiere of ''Harsh Realm'' on Fox, you may be ready to surrender. Mr. Carter, the creator of ''The X-Files'' and ''Millennium,'' has concocted...